Far-right German politician temporarily banned from Twitter, placed under investigation over anti-Muslim message

Thanks to a new anti-hate speech law that went into effect Jan. 1, a far-right German politician saw her access to Twitter and Facebook get suspended after she criticized police for saying "Happy New Year!" in Arabic.

"What the hell is wrong with this country?" Beatrix von Storch wrote in her now-deleted post. "Why is the official page of police in NRW tweeting in Arabic? Are they seeking to appease the barbaric, Muslim, rapist hordes of men?"

Overseeing such cities as Cologne and Leverkusen, North Rhine-Westphalia police had posted a celebratory message in several languages, such as English, French and Arabic, on Dec. 31, The Guardian reports.

"Cologne Police wishes everyone in the metropolitan area of Cologne and Leverkusen and everywhere else of course, a Happy New Year!" they wrote, prompting the Islamophobic response from the deputy leader of the anti-immigrant political party Alternative for Germany.

Von Storch's post earned her a temporary suspension from Twitter and Facebook as both companies now must remove hate speech from their sites in Germany within 24 hours of receiving a notification.

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Otherwise they could be fined up to $60 million.

Upon receiving access to her account once more, Von Storch noted how Facebook had "censored" her, deeming the action "the end of the constitutional state," as well as the fact that fellow Alternative for Germany politician Alice Weidel also got blocked.

In December, the social network booted Britain First deputy leader Jayda Fransen, who famously posted three bigoted anti-Muslim videos that were later shared by President Trump, as well as least two other accounts tied to the U.K.-based group in what became known as the #TwitterPurge.

Meanwhile, such figures as former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke and white supremacist Richard Spencer still have active accounts on Twitter.